Sunday, October 11

In a Brooklyn Chinatown, One Chance to get the Shot

"Yunghi Kim often pretended she wasn’t taking photographs when she started documenting Sunset Park’s Chinatown. She got in the habit of shooting from the hip rather than raising the camera to her eye in the bustling, if camera-shy, Brooklyn neighborhood. 'I’ve been all over the world,' said Ms. Kim, who herself lives in Brooklyn. 'I’ve traveled to 40 countries, and of all the places I’ve gone into, this one was one of the hardest.' The Chinatown in Sunset Park is in fact just one of many Chinatowns in Brooklyn. It has the distinction of being the first, with a direct connection to Manhattan’s Chinatown via the N and D express trains. ..."New York Times